Betterment

Sr. Program Manager, Business Systems & Tooling

Betterment$125K — $145K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, business systems analysis, or a similar role.
  • Working knowledge of Salesforce and adjoining GTM systems like CPQ workflows and integration tools.
  • Experience in a company with a complex, multi-product go-to-market.
  • Proven ability to convert vague stakeholder requests into well-defined tasks.
  • Experience with vendor evaluation and procurement processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with stakeholders to understand their processes, tools, and pain points real-time.
  • Proactively identify and suggest tooling improvements and automation opportunities.
  • Maintain an up-to-date view of stakeholder priorities to align with BS&T's planning.
  • Act as the primary contact for new stakeholder requests, gathering essential context.
  • Collaborate with engineering leads to translate stakeholder needs into actionable tasks.
  • Own and communicate the BS&T roadmap to align with company priorities.
  • Evaluate emerging salestech tools and support the vendor assessment process.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with life insurance and disability support.
  • Equity grants for all employees, including refresher grants.
  • Flexible paid time off and fully paid sabbaticals after six years.
  • Company-paid professional coaching for employee growth.
  • 401(k) match starting on the first day, including student loan payment matching.
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Business Systems & Tooling (BS&T) team builds and operates the internal systems that power Betterment's B2B businesses - from Salesforce and its surrounding integrations to the tooling that connects our sales, service, and advisor workflows to the Betterment platform itself. Because Betterment sells across multiple lines of business, our sales tech stack has to reflect that complexity: it's not one product and one funnel, but a set of interconnected systems serving distinct teams with distinct needs.

This role owns the interface between BS&T and its stakeholders. You'll embed deeply within stakeholder teams - attending their meetings, learning their day-to-day workflows, and understanding their upcoming priorities - so that BS&T can proactively identify opportunities rather than waiting for problems to arrive as tickets. You'll then bring that context back to the team, partnering with our engineering leads and architects to translate stakeholder needs into well-scoped tasks and clear, communicated roadmaps.

This role is ideal for someone who is energized by sitting between business teams and technical teams: fluent enough in each world to be trusted by both, and disciplined enough to turn ambiguity into a plan.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment's total compensation package for employees.

New York City: $125,000 - $145,000

This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus.
A Day in the Life

Stakeholder Immersion & Discovery
  • Embed with stakeholder teams across our lines of business, attending their regular meetings and building a working knowledge of their processes, tools, and pain points.
  • Proactively surface opportunities for tooling improvements, automation, and best practices - bringing ideas to stakeholders rather than waiting to be handed a problem.
  • Maintain a continuously updated view of each stakeholder group's upcoming priorities and how they map to BS&T's capacity and roadmap.
  • Act as the first point of contact for new stakeholder requests, gathering context and framing the underlying need before work is committed.

Scoping, Roadmapping & Prioritization
  • Partner with BS&T's engineering lead and architects to translate stakeholder needs into scoped, documented tasks with clear success criteria.
  • Own and communicate the BS&T roadmap, making prioritization decisions legible to stakeholders and aligning our planning rhythm with the rest of the company.
  • Balance urgent stakeholder priorities against high-value quality-of-life improvements, ensuring compounding wins don't get perpetually deferred.
  • Run intake, backlog grooming, and status communication processes so the team's work - and the reasoning behind it - is visible.

Vendor & Salestech Landscape
  • Stay current on the salestech landscape, evaluating emerging tools and practices for fit with Betterment's stack.
  • Support vendor assessments, procurement, and renewal processes across our salestech vendors, partnering with Finance, Legal, and Security as needed.
  • Help stakeholders evaluate build-vs-buy tradeoffs with a clear-eyed view of total cost, integration complexity, and maintenance burden.
What We're Looking For

Skills & Experience
  • 5+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, business systems analysis, or a similar role sitting between business stakeholders and technical teams.
  • Working knowledge of Salesforce and the surrounding GTM systems ecosystem (e.g., CPQ workflows, enrichment, engagement, and integration tooling) - enough to scope work credibly and ask the right questions, even if you don't build in it yourself.
  • Experience at a company with a complex, multi-product go-to-market - where internal systems must integrate the CRM, adjacent salestech tools, and the product being sold itself.
  • Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous stakeholder requests into scoped, prioritized, well-documented work.
  • Experience supporting vendor evaluation, procurement, or renewal processes is a strong plus.

Professional Competencies
  • Builds trust quickly with both business stakeholders and engineers, and communicates fluently with each in their own terms.
  • Comfortable saying "not yet" - able to make prioritization tradeoffs transparent and keep stakeholder confidence even when their request isn't next.
  • Proactive by default: identifies opportunities and proposes solutions rather than operating purely on intake.
  • Strong writer and documenter; believes that a decision isn't made until it's written down and shared.
  • Thrives in a small team where process is yours to design, not inherited.

Nice to Have
  • Experience in fintech, financial services, or another regulated industry.
  • Familiarity with SQL or data analysis tools sufficient to self-serve answers about system and business data.
  • Exposure to marketing automation or martech platforms (e.g., Braze, HubSpot).

Our Commitment to Your Total Well-being:
  • We offer a competitive suite of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); transit benefits and FSA and HSA options
  • Ownership: Equity for all employees, including new hire and refresher grants.
  • Time: Flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, and a fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year.
  • Growth: Company-paid professional coaching for all employees.
  • Wealth: Day-one 401(k) match plus matching on qualified student loan payments.

About Betterment

Betterment is a financial services company that provides automated investment management and financial planning services. The company's platform uses algorithms to create and manage investment portfolios for its clients, with a focus on low fees and tax efficiency. Betterment was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York City. The company has grown rapidly in recent years, and now manages over $22 billion in assets for more than 500,000 customers.
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